Addison alger coe



(No Model.)

A. A. 00E.

CLUTCH.

No. 595,993. Patented Dec. 21, .1897.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR fzddz'son H y-43 G L- 3%? ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADDISON ALGER OOE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HUGH DE HAVEN, OF SAME PLACE.

CLUTCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,993, dated December 21, 1897.

Application filed February 20, 1897. Serial No. 624,341. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADDISON ALGER COE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clutches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a clutch or fastening by which covers can be rapidly and securely connected to boxes; and the invention resides in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claim and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the clutch in use. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the clutch. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a blank.

The clutch, as seen, comprises a prong portion 1 2, a shoulder portion 2 3, a body or main portion 3 4, and a point portion 4 5, having a barb 6. A box or box side 7 is shown with a cover 8 9 placed thereon. When the point portion 1 2 is passed through the box side 7 to lie along the inner face of said box side, as seen in Fig. 1, and the shoulder 2 3 extends from such box side, the body portion 3 4, lying along cover side or portion 9, can pass its barb portion or point 'into the cover or into the cover part or top 8. The barb 6 keeping the barb-carrying portion 4 5 in engagement with the cover the latter will be held in place by the clutch secured to the box,

as seen.

The clutch is readily formed from a blank, Fig. 3, which may be described as lozengeshaped or approximately so, having the parallel sides 10 and 11, from which the sides 12 and 13 run at angles, forming narrowing or contracting end portions running to the points 1 and 5 at opposite ends of the blank. The shoulder portion or shouldered prong 1 2 3 can be formed by giving the blank a double bend, as at the lines 2 and 3, and the barbed point portion can be formed by giving the blank a bend, as at the line 4, to carry the portion 4 5 to a suitable angle to the body 3 4.

The barb 6 can be formed by partly cutting a blank portion, as by the angular cuts 14 and 15, and then bending the lip or tongue so formed into position to form a barb or catch 6. The portion 4 5 is shown bent or curved downward or toward the point 1, so that the barb 6, when the clutch is in place, will be carried below or can be prevented from projecting above or outside the cover-top 8.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A clutch formed from a lozenge-shaped blank having one of its narrowing or con tracting end portions provided witha double.

bend to form a shouldered prong, and having its other contracting end portion bent to an angle with the body, said last-named end portion having a partially cut and bent portion forming a barb substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADDISON ALGER COE.

Witnesses:

H. G. FALOK, W. J DOUGALL. 

